Mounting, Trimming & Laminating

Photograph Mounting Techniques

Mounting is the most critical part of displaying your photos for your audience. The way you choose to mount your larger photographs is critical for maintaining the photo in its best condition. Setting your photo in a frame on a wall is the most common means to display a photograph whether at its final destination, a home, or at its first destination, the gallery. Either way it is critical to position the photo near other photos that are similar in theme so that you can concentrate the observers’ emotions in one arena rather than forcing them to scan further to find other photographs that they desire the most. Photos are art, whether just a family photo, or a grandiose nature scene; they are meant to appeal to people in both aesthetic and in a more personal, meaningful way. Laminating photographs makes that appeal of your mounting technique last longer and continue to impress your audience for years to come. The way that you trim your photos can cut out the meaningless to focus the attention of the viewer to the site of emotional impact that they desire the most.

Photo Mounting Board

A board to mount multiple photos can help to make it easier to transport and display photos quickly and with a specific theme. The board should be strong enough and well balanced enough to stand on its own but also professional looking to your audience to draw further, more focused attention on your work. A board to display family photographs should have a background to it that can draw attention to the experiences of the family member or members to draw attention to the life that they have lived so that people who see these photographs get a sense of who that person or persons actually was to the people that surrounded them.

Photo Mounting Sleeves

For ease of transport and protection for the photos that you are bringing to a location of display, sleeves are a critical tool for the amateur and professional alike. Laminating in photograph mounting techniques sleeves makes that appeal of your photograph mounting techniques last longer and continue to impress your audience for years to come. But while sleeves protect a photo from minor scratches, they do not protect them from the more damaging bends and folds or even from more critical scratches so one must consider transporting using sleeves and a more solid case so that the risk of damage is reduced drastically.